"Last year, I led a letter on behalf of 28 bipartisan senators calling for robust funding for the VA State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program."
"Let's let the engineers and let's let the consumers decide what they want and what they need."
"Nobody is against electric vehicles if they work and if the consumer wants them."
"Anything that has been said about the IRA is all picking out of the air. It hasn't been fully implemented yet, thank God."
"This issue is not a Democrat-Republican issue, socioeconomic. This issue affects each and every American, and we have to work together to find solutions to fight against the CCP."
"I share all my colleagues' concerns on both sides of the aisle about the impact of this pandemic on our children."
"Unless we choke their money supply off, we are not fixing this problem."
"What we do here will just put us behind other polluters that aren't going to clean up their world, like China."
"We cannot jeopardize our national security, our National Nuclear Security Administration, or our competitiveness in attempting to get all of these investments back in the United States."
"Senator Manchin was just noting, heads the Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization."
"Thank you for giving us all the resources to be able to help communities make those transitions."
"we have to strengthen our domestic supply chains for critical minerals from mining and processing to recycling."
"I have concerns on, quite frankly, and we are not going to get there without really addressing this issue."
"Let's stay on permitting, which is another subject I feel very strongly on."
"In the Inflation Reduction Act, we provided the Department of the Interior with $150 million to increase staffing capacity and resources for permitting activities."
"we also know that our current mining law, which has not been meaningfully updated in 150 years, tips the scales toward mining companies and away from communities who need to have a fair say in the dec..."
"I believe that this is an illegal and very dangerous act that Russia has undertaken here in the past year."
"Due to reconciliation rules, we couldn't adequately fund the ESA consultation and related permitting activities in the IRA."
